Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston is the home of not only the bean and the cod but also the aptly named Combat Zone. The city set aside this seedy downtown area three years ago for X-rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...graduated from Don Bosco Technical High School, a Catholic school situated near Boston's Combat Zone. Joe grew up in a low-income housing project in Allston right down the street from Harvard Stadium. He is a city boy, and the transition to Harvard was immense...
...high; the jobless rate for white youths, meanwhile, stood at 12.6%. George Meany echoed the blacks' complaint by rebuking Carter for putting a balanced budget ahead of a full-employment program. "If we do [balance the budget], all our problems will be over," scoffed Meany, his zest for combat undimmed by his 83 years. "There will be dancing in the streets of the ghettos, and I think even Moscow might put up a white flag of surrender...
Though the U.N. conference featured an Arab-led walkout during the Israeli delegate's Negev report and other outbursts of rudeness and rancor, the Nairobi proceedings made some encouraging progress. Scientists presented many carefully prepared technical analyses of desertification and ways to combat it. The U.S. pitched in with an offer to train a cadre of 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers for antidesertification work. Before the delegates disband this week, they are expected to adopt a 15-point plan that calls for a worldwide effort against the deserts' encroachment with everything from the planting of new vegetation...
After winning a Bronze Star as an infantry lieutenant in combat during World War II, Johnson returned to become active in Republican politics. He helped manage Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 Alabama campaign and was named U.S. Attorney in 1953. Two years later, a week before his 37th birthday, he was appointed the youngest federal judge in the country. In June of 1956, Johnson and another federal judge ordered desegregation of the Montgomery transit system, extending the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision beyond the schools for the first time. In the years that followed...